I fell into one of my own favorite traps last week: the dreaded LED footprint mess. I designed a board based on the Microchip PIC32 - it's a ChipKIT Arduino-compatible board - that has a number of RGB LEDs. on... Read more

Come join us! If you're going to be in Santa Clara, California, on September 16th, drop in to the Convention Center. Screaming Circuits will be there, along with our PCB fabrication partner, Sunstone Circuits. We'll be in booth 510, and... Read more

Every few years something new rears its head and changes everything. The old rules break, convention gets unconventional, storied institutions get shaken to the core. We call this, "Disruption." Automobiles disrupted the horse and buggy industry. Airplanes disrupted the passenger... Read more

How many times can the project manager come in and ask how the PC board design is doing? Why can’t management understand that it’s difficult to say how long it will take to do something that’s never been done before?... Read more